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Henrik Skaug Sætra / [spillteori]

Henrik Skaug Sætra / [spillteori]

@futuritas.eu

820 followers 850 following 190 posts

Technology, ethics, and philosophy. Oh, and some political science - more specifically political theory.
Associate professor at the University of Oslo.
My research: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=p

Neuroscience 22%

Political science 17%

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Henrik Skaug Sætra / [spillteori] @futuritas.eu · Aug 8

What's the value of academic articles and doing research? The product or the process?

This article has been a long process, and how I've processed the ongoing AI disruption of research. I use it very little, and while it's clearly not all bad, I argue for caution.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Reposted by Nils Zurawski, Henrik Skaug Sætra

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 3d

Alex Karp and Peter Thiel are two of the worst people on this planet running one of the most evil companies to ever exist—we should do whatever we can to make Palantir go bankrupt.

Palantir CEO Karp twice slams short sellers as stock suffers worst week since April

Palantir CEO Alex Karp twice confronted short sellers this week as the company's shares suffered a double-digit drop.

Reposted by Henrik Skaug Sætra

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

Priorities. [Cartoon by Michael de Adder]

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 4d

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

Reposted by Henrik Skaug Sætra

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 4d

The man accused of “assaulting” a federal agent by throwing his Subway sandwich walks free on Thursday after countless attempts from the Trump administration to prosecute him both federally and criminally. trib.al/Q4E4cHe

Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Martin Paul Eve, Göran Bolin , and 10 more Meredith Broussard, Martin Paul Eve, Göran Bolin, Mary L. Dudziak, Brian Keegan, Lisa Diedrich, Henrik Skaug Sætra, Klaus Oschema, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Aidan O’Sullivan, Elisa Freschi, Southern Africa

Gales of November ReMar-mbered @histoftech.bsky.social · 4d

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...

OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages

Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.

Reposted by Henrik Skaug Sætra

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 5d

What the hell is this statement from NVIDIA? What am I meant to do with this info?

NVIDIA Newsroom Y @nvidianewsroom
•••
X.com
A statement from NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang.
Statement from NVIDIA
CEO Jensen Huang
As I have long said, China is nanoseconds behind America in Al. It's vital that America wins by racing ahead and winning developers worldwide.
November 5, 2025
• NVIDIA
6:56 PM • 11/5/25 • 260K Views

Reposted by Henrik Skaug Sætra, Southern Africa

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5d

“Meta’s argument is that our recent stories about its glasses are not newsworthy because we wouldn’t bother writing them if the videos in question were filmed with an iPhone as opposed to a pair of smart glasses.”

Good resource for people who don’t seem to understand the differences.

What’s the Difference Between AI Glasses and an iPhone? A Helpful Guide for Meta PR

Meta thinks its camera glasses, which are often used for harassment, are no different than any other camera.

www.404media.co

Henrik Skaug Sætra / [spillteori] @futuritas.eu · 5d

Bored? Listen in in a little over an hour (link on the link): www.jus.uio.no/ifp/english/...

Knut Selmer Memorial Lecture 2025 - Advanced AI and the Social Contract: Reframing the Debate - Department of Private Law

Henrik Skaug Sætra

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 5d

"This initiative will give teachers from every region of Iceland [...] access to advanced AI tools as the country explores how artificial intelligence can transform education."

Has there ever before been products sold where customers* must figure out the use?

www.anthropic.com/news/anthrop...

Anthropic and Iceland announce one of the world’s first national AI education pilots

Anthropic and Iceland announce national AI education pilot

www.anthropic.com

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 6d

WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.

Gen Z women aren't playing around.

Reposted by Henrik Skaug Sætra

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 6d

Gotta hit 'em with the ol' classic.

@Deadspin to @realdonaldtrump Go fuck yourself.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 6d

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.

Follow AP for live updates.

Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power

One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Axel Bruns, Will Jennings , and 9 more Dorothy Bishop, Axel Bruns, Will Jennings, Steve Peers, Andrew Scott, Rosemary A. Joyce, Michelle Everson, Mark Rice, Henrik Skaug Sætra, Greg Linden, Patrick Stokes, Daxton R. Stewart

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 6d

Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Steve Peers, Marie-Anne Paveau , and 2 more Anna O. Law, Steve Peers, Marie-Anne Paveau, Michael Kevane, Henrik Skaug Sætra

Samantha Maldonado @smaldo.bsky.social · 6d

Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6d

Sora 2 is not being “misused” when people use it to produce racist, transphobic, misogynistic, & otherwise vile images—it exists to make it easier to put these images out into the world. Calling it a “misuse” is a grave misunderstanding of what these companies are up to, & lets OpenAI off the hook.

Reposted by Henrik Skaug Sætra

MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · 6d

The idea that machines will be as smart as—or smarter than—humans has hijacked an entire industry. But look closely and you’ll see it’s a myth that persists for many of the same reasons conspiracies do.

Read the story: www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...

Reposted by Henrik Skaug Sætra, Olivier Mannoni

Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 7d

What he said Part 3: 💯 🎯

Reposted by Henrik Skaug Sætra

MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · 7d

A West Coast biotech entrepreneur says he’s secured $30 million to form a public-benefit company to study how to safely create genetically edited babies, marking the largest known investment into the taboo technology.

Here’s the latest company planning for gene-edited babies

Entrepreneurs say it’s time to safety-test designer baby technology.

www.technologyreview.com

Reposted by Henrik Skaug Sætra

Follow the Money EU @ftm.eu · 7d

Google, the world’s largest search engine operating three in four smartphones, has played Brussels like a fiddle – shaping laws, silencing rivals, and calling it "innovation". The chart shows how Big Tech bankrolls Brussels’ top think tanks.

Read our latest story here: www.ftm.eu/articles/goo...

Reposted by Henrik Skaug Sætra

Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 8d

Would you rather go to the US, or continue saying things to your friends on facebook that you don't say in public?

(Or more likely, delete the sad remnants recording that you ever did that. So many friends have left facebook I can't even figure out who I'm talking to in the "memories" FB serves.)

Reposted by Henrik Skaug Sætra

Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 8d

Among other things, US authorities demanded that EVERY social media account of this Norwegian journalist must be made fully open to public reading, and listed on his application for a visa.

The visa never turned up.

Henrik Skaug Sætra / [spillteori] @futuritas.eu · 9d

Another interesting story on the challenges of travelling there these days (google translate from Norwegian) www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...

Hva en avlyst reise forteller om dagens USA

Jeg ble invitert til USA av amerikansk UD, men visumet ble ikke innvilget. Det bør bekymre alle som fortsatt tror USA er et pålitelig demokrati.

www.aftenposten.no

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 9d

I think it's inevitable it will come here, unless we do an end run & build trade ties with all the other non-mega countries. Which is possible. With AI, we can solve logistics quickly, & there's already a move for a new WTO because the old one is broken. If it's more peer-to-peer, it may be robust.

Reposted by Joanna Bryson

Henrik Skaug Sætra / [spillteori] @futuritas.eu · 9d

Another interesting story on the challenges of travelling there these days (google translate from Norwegian) www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...

Hva en avlyst reise forteller om dagens USA

Jeg ble invitert til USA av amerikansk UD, men visumet ble ikke innvilget. Det bør bekymre alle som fortsatt tror USA er et pålitelig demokrati.

www.aftenposten.no

Reposted by Brian Keegan, Paul Nightingale, Henrik Skaug Sætra

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10d

Premium newsletter: Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft need $2 Trillion in AI revenue by 2030 or they've wasted their capex. The massive cost of building data centers and constant decay in value of expensive-to-run GPUs may make AI profits impossible to achieve.
www.wheresyoured.at/big-tech-2tr/

Big Tech Needs $2 Trillion In AI Revenue By 2030 or They Wasted Their Capex

As I've established again and again, we are in an AI bubble, and no, I cannot tell you when the bubble will pop, because we're in the stupidest financial era since the great financial crisis — though,...

www.wheresyoured.at

Henrik Skaug Sætra / [spillteori] @futuritas.eu · 10d

"- Reiselysten til USA har fått en kraftig knekk. Bestillingene har falt med 27 prosent, og sju av ti nordmenn sier at de har mindre lyst til å reise dit så lenge Donald Trump er president." dinside.dagbladet.no/reise/et-kla...

Nordmenns reisevaner under sterk endring. Men én ting vil vi ikke gi slipp på.

dinside.dagbladet.no

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 11d

here's a new one: a tribunal was holding a hearing over Microsoft Teams when they noticed ... an AI bot had joined the call

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 12d

French lawmakers vote to raise France's digital services tax on US tech giants to 6%, up from 3%; the French government opposes the move, fearing US retaliation (Politico)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12d

Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.

Reposted by Axel Bruns, Henrik Skaug Sætra, Jeremy J. Schmidt , and 4 more Axel Bruns, Henrik Skaug Sætra, Jeremy J. Schmidt, Federica Genovese, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Francesco Nicoli, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 13d

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

Reposted by Henrik Skaug Sætra

Tom Jenkins @tomoljenkins.bsky.social · 13d

@wikipedia.org needs our support more than ever as Musk's Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking Points. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Elon Musk's Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking Points

The new AI-powered Wikipedia competitor falsely claims that pornography worsened the AIDS epidemic and that social media may be fueling a rise in transgender people.